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kesar

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Ok so I received an email from the global art agency saying that they have somehow assessed my work and based on that they have sent an invite to the Tokyo International Art Fair 2016. I looked up their website they seem legit. Is there anything else I should do? Because this is really new for me. Also has anyone participated at the Tokyo art fair before?

Sylvia Evans

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Walk on.....various sites seem to target unsuspecting artists I think we have all received stuff like this. I would suggest that you are 100 % sure about them , personally I would just bin any sort of e mail like this one.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Ar, you and me both - I just delete all such invitations now, and hope I don't inadvertently chuck out genuine ones: if there ever are any. If you were earning the sort of money to be able to afford to attend the Tokyo Art Fair - you wouldn't need the Tokyo Art Fair. The other old favourite is the approach from a company telling you that your work would benefit from publication in a book they produce - perhaps it would, if anybody ever saw it: but do they? I wonder if other professions get approaches like this - if there's a Maldives Accountants' Fair where, for just a huge fee and paying your own air-fare, you can hobnob with other accountants and thus widen your commercial contacts.... I did hear (or I think I did, I may have dreamt it) of an International Plumbers' Convention, held somewhere in the USA - symposiums, no doubt, on the ball-cock throughout the world; and the poetry of the S-bend. But I get cynical.